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Sundance Journal: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile

Jason Gorber — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:00:44 +0000

Award-winning documentarian Joe Berlinger has spent much of his career investigating issues of justice and going beyond the headlines to find deeper stories of the accused. In collaboration with the late Bruce Sinofsky, his films including Brother’s Keeper and the Paradise Lost trilogy explored how perceptions and prejudice marred the search for justice. In the...

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‘The Greatest Showman’ Review: More Like the Mediocre Showman

Philip Brown — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:00:28 +0000

Define irony. How about a movie about the value of putting on a great show that is a mediocre show at best? Well, that’s ‘The Greatest Showman’ for you. The film is a massively expensive musical ode to old-fashioned showbiz razzmatazz that could use a little more of that good stuff itself. This is as...

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The Trailer Park: A Fictionalized Truth

M. Enois Duarte — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:00:13 +0000

With the summer movie season now in full swing, it’s time to look ahead at what to expect in the fall and winter. We start with a trio of tales loosely based on true stories. ‘The Greatest Showman’ Visual effects artist Michael Gracey makes his directorial debut with a musical bio-drama about P.T. Barnum, the...

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‘Baywatch’ Review: Not Enough Irony Between the Boobs

Philip Brown — Thu, 25 May 2017 18:00:42 +0000

‘Baywatch’ was a cultural institution in the early 1990s. The TV show was syndicated worldwide and helped usher a generation of young boys through puberty while also keeping a generation of adult males firmly trapped in their adolescence. The show was always a joke, mocked mercilessly and enjoyed only through guilt. Now there’s a movie,...

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The Trailer Park: The Beginning of Good Things?

M. Enois Duarte — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:00:50 +0000

As more and more trailers tease viewers with movies to come in 2017, here’s a collection of previews that may potentially launch new franchises. ‘The Mummy’ (2017) Tom Cruise isn’t a name we usually attach to horror movies, except perhaps as a footnote for sporting a pair of fangs in ‘Interview with the Vampire’, and...

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‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’ Review: Here Comes the Raunch

Philip Brown — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:00:08 +0000

‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’ succeeds almost in spite of its premise. Loosely based on the true story of the Stangle brothers, who put an ad on Craigslist that went viral and… yadda yadda yadda, a book and movie deal… it could have easily been a braindead bro comedy. Thanks to clever writing, directing,...

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‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’ Review: A Non-Sucky Sequel

Philip Brown — Fri, 20 May 2016 14:00:42 +0000

Comedy sequels generally suck. We all know this. So it’s a pleasant surprise to say that ‘Neighbors 2’ doesn’t. It repeats the trick of the first movie by being better than anyone had any right to expect. ‘Neighbors‘ might be the highest grossing film on Seth Rogen’s lucrative live-action résumé, but you’d be hard pressed...

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‘Dirty Grandpa’ Review: Bad De Niro, Very Bad De Niro

Philip Brown — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:00:00 +0000

‘Dirty Grandpa’ is a flat-out horrible movie. Stale, unfunny and offensive in unintentional ways, it’s the nadir of the contemporary R-rated comedy. The pain of sitting through this nonsense is made substantially worse by the fact that Robert De Niro, the Raging Bull himself, is somehow involved. Now, it’s certainly not uncommon for De Niro...

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‘Neighbors’ Review: Frats, Families and Funnies

Philip Brown — Thu, 08 May 2014 16:00:18 +0000

If nothing else, give Seth Rogen credit for acknowledging his age. Sure, in his latest movie, ‘Neighbors’, he plays a stoner with a heart of gold who feuds with frat kids, but at least this time he’s playing a thirty-something stoner with a heart of gold feuding with frat kids. By Hollywood standards, that’s a...

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Now Playing: That Crappy Comedy

Philip Brown — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:00:41 +0000

About fifteen years ago, ‘That Awkward Moment’ still would have been a bad movie, but at least it would have been a failed entry in a common ’90s genre. As it stands now, the film is dull, derivative and out of date. Most importantly, it’s a romantic comedy that’s neither funny nor romantic. It’s just...

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Now Playing: Beyond the Grassy Knoll

Bryan Kluger — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:00:18 +0000

I currently reside in Dallas, TX. Whenever friends or family members come to visit, one of the things on their list to see is the 6th floor book depository where Lee Harvey Oswald fired his infamous shot to kill President John F. Kennedy. The site is now a museum, and there’s actually an “X” painted...

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Weekend Box Office: From Chimpan-A to Steve Harvey

Luke Hickman — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:00:20 +0000

Although ‘The Hunger Games’ finally got muscled out of the #1 spot on, this, its fifth weekend of release, the film managed to only drop another 31%. Coming in at third, ‘The Hunger Games’ has now made $356 million domestically. The movie that captured the #1 spot not only surprised me, but it surpassed its...

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